haughtiness

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Haughtiness is an attitude and characteristic she’s cultivated in pictures such as “Working Girl” and “The Ice Storm,” and there certainly are elements of it in her breakout role, Ellen Ripley of the “Alien” movies.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2017

I shall bring this Haughtiness to a Penance, you may not like.

From The Old Debauchees. A Comedy (1732) by Fielding, Henry

Haughtiness and contempt are among the habits to be avoided.

From Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by Young, John H.

Haughtiness, there is haughtiness when there is no tape and no billiard rooms and no need to be secured from wet.

From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude

He is very reserved, and a Person of few Words, which gives him an Air that those who are not conversant with him mistake for Haughtiness.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von